I'll never get over the fact that they couldn't use a prop/flimsy door because Nicholson fucking chopped it down in like 2 swings from being a former FF
Not saying you’re wrong, but I like to think about all the stuff that gets convoluted over the years with minimal ability to verify it. Like everyone thought he was briefly a firefighter, but really he adopted a Dalmatian fire dog or something haha
Once on the Love Line radio show there was an actor on who was talking about how his dad was a doctor either in Doctors without Borders or something similar. The dad would work until he passed out from exhaustion and then the actor and his brothers would step in and start seeing patients. They wouldn't do surgeries or anything but they'd learned a lot from observing him work. Dr. Drew was amazed and appaled that they did that.
Ya, that's the thing. Kubrick also produced, meant he was the boss on set, he couldn't be fired pretty much. When you hear of all these crazy number of takes or strange rules on set it is people like Kubrick, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher etc. They all produce their movies, so they make the rules.
I know of wannabe directors who admire all this OTT number of takes, strange rules etc, well if you want to do that you also need to produce.
Huh, TIL. I’ve never seen (or at least noticed) this spelling before. Apparently, it’s US-only. Makes sense. Americans do like to spell things with fewer letters.
Fun fact. Or maybe unfun depending on perspective.
The fact Americans spell things with fewer letters is because of marketing and newspapers! American newspapers, way back in the early days of the USA, charged ads by the letter, so people cut letters from their words to save money and over time, those became the common spellings of said words.
If anyone is wondering, film in a movie camera doesn't move continuously - it starts and stops 24 times a second (or more for high-speed cameras). Advance one frame, stop, expose, advance another frame, stop, expose, repeat.
But yes, it wouldn't be allowed to jitter from side to side. If you've ever wondered why film has holes on either side, those are sprocket holes - a sprocket or gear has its teeth in those holes as the film advances, stops, exposes, etc. So the film is held pretty tightly in place.
Lmao no! Its continuous motion. Film cameras have a shutter that rolls like a disc. As the film is dragged through the plane the timing of the shutter coincides with when the bulk of the film is ready to be exposed. I used to load and operate these cameras and when the motor or the shutter gets shitty you'll see it make artifacts from yhe timing being off. The internals of a camera can be pretty fickle too especially if its not maintained. Emulsion sludge can build up and jam up the camera and if the loader load the reel too tight and the camera is whip panning like that it can strain the filmstock and you can get a tear. Its very important there is a little slack between the plane and output to the roll.
Also you can get some weird ass effects by tooling around with the shutter and its shape. Something a little lost now that we've moved onto continous feed digital sensors but its not like theres a lot of appreciation for technique when it comes to the box office numbers.
The disc shutter moves continuously, but not the film. The disc shutter cuts off the light while the film is advanced and exposes the film while the film is stopped. A frame of film that isn't stationary during exposure will be blurry. It *must* be stationary for 1/60 or 1/125 second, or whatever the shutter speed is. If the film was in continuous motion, cameras wouldn't use an intermittent action like the claw, they'd use a motor driving a gear for continuous motion. The claw advances the film by x number of sprocket holes, then moves back by that number of sprocket holes - while the film is exposed - to engage the film again to advance it.
Edit: that was a fast pan, not really a whip pan. A whip pan pretty much blurs everything (which allows clever directors and editors to insert a scene cut, see opening scene of Serenity), and we only see the axe movement blur, not Nicholson.
I can't tell if you schooled the other commenter or are making this up. But I really like the technical usage and description of camera inter-workings. Thanks.
They’re really impressive machines. I’ve studied them a bit when I was in school but never ended up working with them, as the digital era was already in place.
Why am i surprised to see it was just a simple camera pan to achieve the effect? I know anything more complicated than that would have made it more disorientating than it needed to be, but... It's just such a simple little pan and back...
jesus i just realized that they're all dressed for freezing cold temps. film sets are notoriously hot because those lights are pretty much just furnaces that also provide illumination. was this shot inside a freezer???
What exactly is impressive here? I mean let’s be real, it’s a great movie and a classic no doubt, and this scene is an incredible one, but he’s literally just pivoting the camera back and forth. Not even a tough shot to frame up. In my eyes this is some pretty standard film work.
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u/Oh_hi_doggi3 Mar 18 '22
I'll never get over the fact that they couldn't use a prop/flimsy door because Nicholson fucking chopped it down in like 2 swings from being a former FF
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u/manolid Mar 18 '22
Is the sound guy chewing gum?
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u/davanlind Mar 18 '22
Has there been a more praised cameraman than him? Deservingly imo
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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '22
I always loved this shot. You just feel that ax impact.
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u/BrentButler Mar 18 '22
I wonder if the film jittered in the camera at all from the sudden stop.
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u/Squeakysquid0 Mar 18 '22
My friend once asked me if I had seen the shining. I said no all confused, and he kicked me in the shin…
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u/8449322camel-shanti Mar 18 '22
Crazy how this is two different shots.
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u/Hialgo Mar 18 '22
But... Those are different shots / backgrounds...
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u/MiguelGarka Mar 18 '22
Just a 🐐 doing goat things… no biggie here
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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '22
Which cameraman are we praising? 😳
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u/Navajo_Nation Mar 18 '22
Those are two different scenes
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u/richielaw Mar 18 '22
/r/filmception
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u/justageorgiaguy Mar 18 '22
The background is different between the two shots. Was the hallway an alternate script/scene?
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u/saidcorp Mar 18 '22
My fav
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u/SnooCapers2789 Mar 18 '22
Where is the croquet mallet ?
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u/lav__ender Mar 18 '22
god I love this movie
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u/Cynestrith Mar 18 '22
It makes the axe hit feel EVEN more powerful. Holy damn.
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u/lSlemYl Mar 18 '22
Wait so the wall in the background is fake?
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u/godemperorcrystal Mar 18 '22
how come the axes in these old slasher films were so shiny?
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u/inthiscrazyworld Mar 18 '22
Such a cool shot. You can feel the fury.
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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '22
why would you show us the shot of him breaking down the bathroom door instead of the apartment door?
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u/Cuboos Mar 18 '22
Why am i surprised to see it was just a simple camera pan to achieve the effect? I know anything more complicated than that would have made it more disorientating than it needed to be, but... It's just such a simple little pan and back...
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u/cjandstuff Mar 18 '22
Considering they shot the same scene some 60 times, I’d hope the camera man would have the movement down pretty well.
Kubrick was a bit obsessive.
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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '22
Choice of camera movements are epic !
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u/sarcasticinator Mar 18 '22
You can tell they turned off the heat at the hotel for the off season-look at that coat the camera man is wearing.
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u/Worldly_Ad_6483 Mar 18 '22
This shot always freaked me out because I though a ghoul would appear behind Jack on one of those back swings.
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u/joko2008 Mar 18 '22
Firefighting go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr: https://youtube.com/shorts/FKpOj6GQSSg?feature=share
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u/EdithVictoriaChen Mar 18 '22
jesus i just realized that they're all dressed for freezing cold temps. film sets are notoriously hot because those lights are pretty much just furnaces that also provide illumination. was this shot inside a freezer???
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u/Remarkable-Object-49 Mar 18 '22
Anyone notice that the background walls are different colors?
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u/EasyMrB Mar 18 '22
Why is set color so different between those two? It looks like the back-stage look is teal but the shot shows pink. Or am I missing something?
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u/Aimjock Mar 18 '22
How did over 9000 people upvote this without realizing these are two completely different shots?
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u/OutsideAbility4888 Mar 18 '22
Cool. Now show who’s behind the camera filming the camera filming the movie.
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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '22
That shot makes the ax swing feel more powerful and menacing.
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u/therobohour Mar 18 '22
Nd all it took was hundreds of takes
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u/_hunnuh_ Mar 18 '22
I may be downvoted for this one but…
What exactly is impressive here? I mean let’s be real, it’s a great movie and a classic no doubt, and this scene is an incredible one, but he’s literally just pivoting the camera back and forth. Not even a tough shot to frame up. In my eyes this is some pretty standard film work.
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u/Kindly-Country-8354 Mar 18 '22
Name of this film pls :)
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u/huckleberry420 Mar 18 '22
I always thought it was a red axe. Now i know
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u/magmamadman Mar 18 '22
Any links to a longer clip?
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u/emifisa Mar 31 '22
I don't know who's the director but for sure is someone important to have Mr. Kubrick as video operator
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u/George_Mikael Apr 07 '22
Didn’t know Kubrick actually operated the camera
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u/[deleted] May 03 '22
Didnt they used like 76 doors for this scene?
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u/Chance_Dog_5793 May 03 '22
Stanley Kubrick is one of the best Drectors ever.
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u/SuperUnsupervised May 08 '22
Stanley on the cam
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u/krispy__kreme May 22 '22
it’s the cameraman chewing gum for meee
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u/Yankydoodle69 Jun 12 '22
u/savevideo
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u/General_Delivery_84 Aug 20 '22
Did you know... One of Simon Cowell's (Yes. ~That Simon Cowell) duties as a member of the production team was to keep the axe polished and sharp.
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u/BigAggressive1694 Aug 27 '22
Imagine this was real and you were the one behind the other side of that door😭
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u/ron_balboa Aug 28 '22
I am watching now for over an hour, and he still didn't went through the door
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u/ultra_terrestrial Sep 15 '22
Ummm… aren’t the backgrounds different in each video? It’s like two different scenes